The Acid Test

By Peter Austin

With diverse settings, and characters that include eccentric family members, couples hard on their luck, or strays trying to fit in, Peter Austin recreates, in turn, moments of the soporific bedtime story, the murmurs by the office water-cooler, or kindles the crackle of campfire fables. The Acid Test recasts the short short into metrically attuned and delightfully rhymed verse. -Alexander Pepple Editor, Able Muse Peter Austin's new book of story poems, The Acid Test, is a labyrinthine collection, in rhyming iambic pentameter, of sustained narratives-one part tall tales and jokes, one part coming-of-age vignettes, and another part family memories that are by turns hysterically funny and bittersweet and thoughtful. The reader will find here dialogues and travelogues, arguments and misunderstandings, humorous incidents and curious notions, all told in a range of linguistic registers that are perfectly attuned to speakers and situations. The Acid Test is an ambitious work by a first-rate poet with a commitment both to the rigor of formal poetry, and to the grittiness of the spoken language. -Joseph S. Salemi Editor, Trinacria

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692237194
• ISBN13: 9780692237199
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Aldrich Press
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"